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The Power of Email Lists

Imagine if you had a sea of potential clients who were one click away from working with you. How would it impact your web design business? The secret is building email lists that you can turn to to build relationships and generate leads. There are many ways to grow and expand your freelance business and one of the most powerful is an email list. For little to no money, you can start a list, build your traffic, and gather more potential leads who will be pining to work with you.

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Convert Your Traffic Into Loyal Readers

So, you’re a website owner with several thousands of visitors monthly. Quite possibly you have asked yourself how do I make my readers interact more on my website? The answer? It could be through the use of gamification. The essence of gamification is to convert a website’s still community into a lively carnival. You may have 100,000 visitors on your website every month, but do you have an active community?

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Essential E-Commerce Website Features: Tips and Examples

There are many different approaches you can take when designing an e-store. However, you might notice that effective e-commerce websites have certain site features that are absolutely critical to the shopper’s experience.

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Create Dynamic Directories And Default Pages

Do you have a community based site with lots and lots of users? Do they post comments, upload pictures or documents, or maybe send in video or audio? Would you like to build one?

It’s easy enough, when you do have your site built, to have a page that displays that user’s info based on their UserID or any other variable you choose to use. Like: awebsite.com/a_page.php?UserID=something.

Let’s take it further and dynamically create a directory and place a default start page for each user based on their name so they have their own personal URL and space on your site. Like: awebsite.com/username.

This is completely done in DW8 with very little hand coding at all. You’re gonna find it opens many doors for you and your users. It took me years to figure this out and make it work this way. Now you can in minutes.

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Don’t Use Black for Shadows

That is, “don’t use black for shadows over colored backgrounds.” At every step of my design education I was taught this. For example, when adding a drop shadow as a layer style in Photoshop, don’t just pick a black or a gray but sample a color from the background, then dial it back in opacity until it looks good.

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Join, trim and add watermark to the video using Quick Time Pro

Video editing can be easy or more complex - in general it's not an easy topic, however there are some applications which make some of the tasks really simple.
This video tutorial reveals some of the features of QuickTime Pro to allow you Quickly edit your footage.

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A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters

They’re a great extension to your business’ communication toolkit and offer you and your clients an excellent channel by which you can reach potential and existing customers.

In this article, we’ll explore common design patterns of email newsletters and learn which approaches work well, so that you’ll be prepared to create one for yourself and your clients.

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Quickie CSS3 Tricks with Fallbacks

CSS3 can do some seriously neat stuff. But as we all know, we need to be careful with what we choose to do with it. The most cutting edge techniques are fun to play with, but since since only a sliver of browsers support them fully, we can only use them in circumstances where they fall back to otherwise perfectly acceptable styling. Let’s look at a couple of quick, simple, cheezy examples.

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Designing “Coming Soon” Pages

Deciding what to do once you’ve purchased a domain but haven’t yet launched the website is always a bit of a conundrum. Leaving up your domain registrar or Web host’s generic page seems unprofessional, especially if you’re trying to drum up advance press for your new project. At the same time, you don’t want to spend too much time on a temporary page when you really should be working on the website itself.

The best thing to do is create a simple “Coming soon” page to notify visitors of what will eventually be there.

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Latest Fashion of Christmas Card: Send Your Best Wishes from PowerPoint

Create your personalized online greeting cards and send Flash eCards instantly by E-mail within PowerPoint for this holiday seasons. Read More